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Breaking Glass

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed this eyesore, which is the poster for season two of Showtime's This American Life, popping up everywhere like an epidemic of smug. This American Life, which is based on the...
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Lovitz a Battlefield

Jon Lovitz was at an AIDS benefit recently and made a Jeremiah Wright/AIDS/racist joke that the crowd didn't quite appreciate. But before anybody goes comparing this to the Michael Richards' meltdown, please co...
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Sequelle Magnifique

In Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (profiled not long ago in one of America's most prestigious magazines) gave us one of the greatest Jewish lines in the history of film....
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Grand Kvetch Auto

Grand Theft Auto IV hit stores this week and everyone went apey for it. I was pretty excited about the testosterone-fueled title myself, especially considering that its "Liberty City" setting was supp...
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Mr. Weinstein Goes to Washington

Hillary Clinton supporter and movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, recently held a private phone conference, but don't hold your breath for the least erotic political sex scanda...
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Not For the Teacher

Last week, The Howard Stern Show held an "Ugliest Guy, Hottest Wife" contest in which three couples competed for a $5,000 prize. Connecticut school teacher Marie Jarry (and her worse half) took home t...
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Method to Their Madness

Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) temporarily ended on Wednesday when AMPTP representatives walked, significantly lowering th...
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High School Bake Sale

It's no longer April, but it's still 420. Or at least it is for 17-year old Austinite Heather McCurry who sold pot brownies to schoolmates this week for just $4 a piece. A shame that the fuzz charged her with a...
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Feeling a Draft

On this Israeliest of days, we're delighted by news that love of Zion is not dead, even if it at times needs a threat of a boycott to express itself. Israeli Ubermodel Bar Refaeli has become Israel's newest &q...
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Budapests

The ex-Eastern Bloc is a sort of a bizarro universe. It hasn't quite lost that lovin' Soviet feeling, but it has adapted in significant ways to the Western world. Every once in a while, though, there's a nice l...
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Isn’t It Ironic?

Scarlett Johansson confirmed her engagement to Ryan "Van Wilder" Reynolds yesterday. Reynolds dumped his former fiance, Alanis Morissette, for Scarlett in February 2007, coincidentally around the same...